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miércoles, 15 de mayo de 2013

How to deal with ethics and transparency in the EU

If anything, the EU law-making is complex. Some even claim it’s undemocratic, which is far from true, but the lack of transparency has a negative impact on the credibility of the European political system. The EU itself has estimated the real cost of corruption in financial terms, but the political cost in terms of democratic legitimacy and public perception of the EU is much more relevant. In recent years there have been some corruption scandals...Go on reading

"The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important. Small nations will count as much as large ones and gain their honour by their contribution to the common cause. The ancient states and principalities of Germany, freely joined together for mutual convenience in a federal system, might take their individual places among the United States of Europe". Sir Winston Churchill,1946.